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Industry Moves: Uclick Hires Handmark’s Douglas Edwards As CEO - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 16 May 2008 11:49 AM PST

Douglas Edwards, the co-founder of Handmark, has been named CEO of uclick, a provider of digital content, including comics and games on the Web and mobile phone. Uclick is owned…

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Qualcomm Wins License For UK L-Band; MediaFLO Coming To Britain? - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 16 May 2008 02:40 AM PST

Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) announced today that its UK unit has been awarded a license for the country’s chunk of spectrum in the 1452-1492 MHz range, the so-called L Band, recently…

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Mobile Entertainment Forum Launches Initiative To Spur Mobile Social Networking - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 15 May 2008 10:18 AM PST

Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), the London-based trade association, is launching a new initiative today that will explore mobile social networking in the U.S., France, India, Italy and the U.K. to…

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NBC Sports Makes A Big Play In Wireless With Mobile TV Offering - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 15 May 2008 08:53 AM PST

NBC Sports today announced its biggest mobile endeavor yet—NBC 2Go, a mobile TV station on Qualcomm’s (NSDQ: QCOM) MediaFLO service and MobiTV service. NBC provided a bit more context to…

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At Least Two Paths Are Emerging In Mobile TV - 4 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 15 May 2008 12:01 AM PST

If you haven’t heard about this yet, join the club. While Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) and others have been working diligently within the wireless industry to roll out mobile TV, a…

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Mobile Content Bits: Mobile News; SendMe; Anti-SMS Spam - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 14 May 2008 04:04 PM PST

-- Knight Foundation awards digital community news projects: The Knight Foundation is awarding $5.5 million to 16 different projects which won a content for transforming community news through digital technology,…

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Sony BMG Offers DRM-Free MP3s Via Dada - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 14 May 2008 02:55 PM PST

Dada Entertainment and Sony BMG have signed a deal which will see full-length DRM-free MP3s made available to Dada’s subscribers. The service charges $9.99 a month for 15 tokens, each…

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Glu Mobile Rises On Solid Earnings Outlook And Upgrades - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 14 May 2008 10:46 AM PST

Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) shares rose today after an analyst ungraded the stock following the mobile game publisher’s solid Q1 results yesterday. The stock is up today about 40 cents,…

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Dish Network Seeks Partner To Build Mobile TV Network - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 14 May 2008 10:11 AM PST

After Dish Network paid $712 million for airwaves in the last spectrum auction, there was a ton of speculation as to what the satellite TV company was going to do…

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LG, Samsung Team Up In Pitch For (Yet Another) North American Mobile TV Standard - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 14 May 2008 08:44 AM PST

South Korean handset manufacturers LG (SEO: 066570) and Samsung have agreed to work together on a mobile TV technology that they hope will become the North American standard. The idea…

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Mobile Content Bits: CelluMall; Zedge; Opera Mini 4.1; oneSearch on Rogers - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 13 May 2008 02:05 PM PST

-- CelluMall is the latest effort by Cellufun to generate revenue. Cellufun runs an ad-supported mobile games community, and the idea behind CelluMall is that players will be able to…

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LG Launches DVB-T Handset - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 13 May 2008 01:37 PM PST

LG (SEO: 066570) has launched a DVB-T compatible handset in Germany reports Telecoms Korea...so what was DVB-H for again? I don’t know how well the handset works nor how well…

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Mobile Music Marketer Mozes Raises $11.5 Million Second Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 13 May 2008 09:31 AM PST

Mozes, a company that lets bands interact with fans over mobile, has raised an $11.5 million second round from Maveron and return backers Norwest Venture Partners and North Bridge Venture…

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Updated: Earnings: Glu Mobile Reports Higher Losses, Higher Revenues - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 13 May 2008 05:45 AM PST

Mobile games firm Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) announced first quarter revenue of $20.6 million, up from $15.7 million compared to the same period a year ago. They also reported a…

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Mobile Content Bits: Big Fish And Glu; SendMe And IAC; Sega And Greystripe; Momail Email In UK - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 13 May 2008 01:00 AM PST

-- *Glu* unveils “Mystery Case” game: Today, Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) is unveiling “Mystery Case Files: Agent X,” a game designed and developed by Big Fish Games for mobile phones…

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MocoNews Review With Video: AT&T’s MediaFLO Is Best Chance For Mobile TV To Take Off - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 12 May 2008 08:00 PM PST

The just-launched AT&T (NYSE: T) Mobile TV service is so good I watched the two-hour long 1982 comedy The Toy, featuring Richard Pryor without even really realizing it. In retrospect,…

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Earnings: Buongiorno Reports Q1 Results; Acquisition Of iTouch Complete - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 12 May 2008 09:57 AM PST

Buongiorno, the Italian mobile entertainment company, today announced Q1 results for the period ended March 31, reporting that following the acquisition of iTouch, the company has increased revenues and profits…

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Mobile Content Bits: Indiana Jones; Yahoo Go 3.0; Australia 3G - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 09 May 2008 05:42 PM PST

-- O2 and Samsung are teaming up to sell exclusive content for the new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull movie. Wallpapers, true tones, voice tones and…

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Mobile Content Bits: Navteq Verizon Navigator; Chaka-Uta Full R Hits 200 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 09 May 2008 06:02 AM PST

-- NAVTEQ (NYSE: NVT) Powers Revamped VZ Navigator: Digital map provider NAVTEQ has signed a deal with Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ), to use its NAVTEQ Traffic Mobile to power the…

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RealNetworks To Spin Off Its Game Business; Considering IPO - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 08 May 2008 03:53 PM PST

Rafat is reporting over on our sister site PaidContent.org that RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) says it will spin-off its global casual games business into an independent company by the end of…

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WMG Mobile Music Revenues Down 17.6 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 08 May 2008 02:29 PM PST

Mobile music remains a challenging business for Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG), which reported today in its second quarter earnings ending March 31 that mobile remains “soft” as ringtone sales…

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iPhone Gets More Video, But Not From Apple - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 08 May 2008 01:26 PM PST

A couple of new services are sending video to the iPhone, which has been hampered by a narrow choice of supported video formats (Flash being the most noticed). NBC is…

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Mobile Content Bits: VZ Navigator; Paramount Games; Java Video - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 07 May 2008 04:15 PM PST

-- Verizon (NYSE: VZ) launches VZ Navigator version 4: Verizon has launched version 4 of VZ Navigator, which lets customers access information about traffic incidents on major roadways, obtain traffic…

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PlayPhone Will Merge With Pitch Entertainment To Get Global Reach - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 07 May 2008 04:00 AM PST

PlayPhone, a mobile content company based in San Jose, CA, plans to announce this morning that it is merging with London-based Pitch Entertainment Group to expand its coverage to more…

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Sprint-Clearwire: First Reactions To JV Are Mixed: ‘Spaghetti-like Mess,’ Google, Intel ‘Good Signs’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 06 May 2008 08:00 PM PST

A joint-venture deal between Sprint (NYSE: S) and Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) that includes investments of $3.2 billion coming from Intel (NSDQ: INTC), Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), Google…

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